Dom Del Torto is an animator currently living in the UK. Dom Del Torto’s laptop is a MacBook Pro currently living 3,000 miles away in Iran. This was not a planned separation. More »
Finding ways to stealthily transport alcohol has been a long-time obsession for man. We’ve used just about anything imaginable to do so, too, including fruit and animal bladders. Around the 18th century, though, we found a more refined and possibly more sanitary way to do so with the hip flask, which, at the time, was mostly used by the privileged class. So it should come as no surprise that The Macallan and Oakley’s recent collaboration has amounted to the most over-engineered and expensive mass-produced flask known to man. More »
If you’ve always yearned for a washboard stomach, and you can do a thousand crunches but you still aren’t seeing results, you’re not alone. But never fear! Everyone has a six pack under there (somewhere), you’ve just got to know what to do to get it out in the open. More »
The smallest of chunks can become something much bigger with careful construction and a bit of planning. LittleBits—an awesome little building tool that sits somewhere on the spectrum between Lego and arduino, incorporating the best parts of both—is showing off that potential big time in the windows of NYC’s MoMa Design Stores this month. More »
Samsung’s Galaxy Mega is pretty big. (You: How big is it?) So big that it’s bigger than about 75 percent of the full grown human penises on planet Earth. Full stop. More »
The Design Museum’s Designs of the Year awards showcase the most innovative and imaginative designs from around the world, over the past year, spanning seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Transport and Product. Here are the winners for each category, just announced today. More »
Everyone knows the IRS is our nation’s tax collector, but it is also a law enforcement organization tasked with investigating criminal violations of the tax laws. New documents released to the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the IRS Criminal Tax Division has long taken the position that the IRS can read your emails without a warrant-a practice that one appeals court has said violates the Fourth Amendment (and we think most Americans would agree). More »
You’d think you could do most things in the kitchen with a knife and a good mixing bowl. Apparently not, according to the spate of highly specific single-purpose kitchen gadgets that exist. We showed you a few last month, but it turns out there are so many more horrors that we missed. More »
I was shocked at what I had just done, so I laughed out loud. I was there, in a house in the Swiss mountains, lying comfortably on a sofa. I was reading Canetti’s Crowds and Power, a solid 400-page book. And then, as my eyes were approaching the end of yet another page, I swiped upwards. More »
The Design Museum has announced the contenders for the sixth annual Designs of the Year. And their shortlist for digital showcases some of the most innovative interpretations of technology we’ve ever seen. More »
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